Ah!Brains, Japanese idol’s magically manic brain candy
Click for YouTubeSometimes I’m left dumbfounded by Japanese TV commercials such as this one for Shigekix’s “Ah!Brain” candy.
Yes, that’s what I said…BRAIN CANDY. “Mmmm, brains.”
Ah!Brain is a brain-stimulant sour candy that’s is supposed to make your brain GENKI/peppy with BCAA (Branched Chain Amino Acids) that stimulate your brain cells to give you more moments of “Aha!” You can order super-duper Ah!Brain from our sponsor, J-List.com.
Besides giving your brain a wake up call with Aha! Brain Shigekix, you can also try out Iron Shigekix which are bone shaped, super sour candies containing minerals and iron. The word “shigeki” of Shigekix means “stimulation” in Japanese and these are supposed to help build strong bones and muscles (also available from J-List.com).
Watch the lower quality YouTube below, or view higher quality video on Shigekix’s official webpage for their TV commercials.
Miss Yellow Helmet with a loudspeaker is Mina Murakami (村上三奈) who is a street performer living in Osaka. Her “song” if you can call it that (シゲキックスを噛まなきゃ！) goes:
“SHIGEKI NO GEKI, GEKI, GEKI ”
♪シゲキのゲキ、ゲキ、ゲキ〜♪
which means ‘Shigekix’s get excited, get excited, get excited‘ and is a take-off of her song parody of her hit, “Japanese pumpkin is foolish” (カボチャのばか).
As a street performer in front of Osaka train station, Mina Murakami is famous for assembling crowds of 600 persons within 10 minutes with her, ” berserk but lovely beauty girl performance” according to her promo website.
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February 10th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Oh my Buddha! I’m in love!
Mina Murakami lists her hobbies in her profile as:
–Acrobatic flower arrangement
–Flash calligraphy
–Unevenness unevenness Japanese verse
–Making songs with onomatopoesis subjects
February 11th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Are you sure they aren’t just targeting the fast growing zombie market?
February 12th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Yep, the Zombie market is huge in Japan what with all the zombie salarymen and zombie obasan herds on the loose in Land-of-Living-Dead Tokyo.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:19 am
How do you capture the vids off the internet?
think commercials like this would be grand to annoy people with….LOL
February 12th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
How do you capture the vids off the internet?
With a lot of difficulty. Try googling for an “online flv convertor”, hee, hee.
Such tools make lo-fi copies of video or just the the audio such as this one I made here….
Listen to my short, audio capture of the Aha!Brain “song”. (MP3, 658KB, 15sec)